/dev/null Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNew...E55G19J20090617 I suspect it will be as objective as ABC's recent 2 hour special Earth 2100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Why doesn't ABC get their official White House knee pads with the Presidential Seal on them right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blzrul Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Why doesn't ABC get their official White House knee pads with the Presidential Seal on them right now. Probably because the Presidential Kneepads were never returned by FAUX after 8 years of kissing GWB's ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Probably because the Presidential Kneepads were never returned by FAUX after 8 years of kissing GWB's ass. Pretty good comeback, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 NBC must be pretty pissed if they are not being recognized as the official OBC. After all, they've put in the effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 NBC must be pretty pissed if they are not being recognized as the official OBC. After all, they've put in the effort. They probably reached an agreement whereby ABC gets health care, and Jeff Immelt in turn gets energy policy for NBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RkFast Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Pretty good comeback, actually. Agreed. Deb...one point for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ieatcrayonz Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Pretty good comeback, actually. Weren't they all worn out anyway by the time Clinton left? Bush and Obama are both known for being fiscally responsible so I doubt they would have spent money on new ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 Love or lust, Obama and the fawning press need to get a room Editorial by Phil Bronstein, San Francisco Chronicle 6/15/09: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronst...?entry_id=41380 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me? Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation: One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration. Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal. Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it. Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say. Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down! Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there. Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate. Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit? Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves. Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us. Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me. Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave. I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending. From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons. We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution. Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming. http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/26808/ Great letter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finknottle Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation: I agree with everything except (4). The debate on global warming is over. It is the debate on viable responses and their implications that is being circumvented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I agree with everything except (4). The debate on global warming is over. It is the debate on viable responses and their implications that is being circumvented. It is not. A "consensus" is not fact. There is no such thing as a scientific consensus. To act on something other that proven fact is terrible folly. What accounted for the so-called "mini" ice age, which brought about the Dark Ages? It certainly wasn't carbon emissions by man. How would you explain the extreme attenuation of global temperature extremes in the last ten thousand years, when the geological records show far more dramatic changes before? Why are we in this 10k year's worth span of moderation, save one blip? The warming crowd conveniently extracts data from a recent couple of hundred years and dismisses the rest. Academia...studies are geared to whatever grants are in the offing. There is no questioning the worth, the validity. Cash on the barrellhead, salaries paid, and woe to the person that doesn't dance the party line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magox Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 It is not. A "consensus" is not fact. There is no such thing as a scientific consensus. To act on something other that proven fact is terrible folly. What accounted for the so-called "mini" ice age, which brought about the Dark Ages? It certainly wasn't carbon emissions by man. How would you explain the extreme attenuation of global temperature extremes in the last ten thousand years, when the geological records show far more dramatic changes before? Why are we in this 10k year's worth span of moderation, save one blip? The warming crowd conveniently extracts data from a recent couple of hundred years and dismisses the rest. Academia...l studies are geared to whatever grants are in the offing. There is no questioning the worth, the validity. Cash on the barrellhead, salaries paid, and woe to the person that doesn't dance the party line. But Al Gore says if we don't act now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted June 18, 2009 Author Share Posted June 18, 2009 http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/26808/ I wish you had posted that at the top of your post so I wouldn't have wasted my time reading it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWVaBeach Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I wish you had posted that at the top of your post so I wouldn't have wasted my time reading it You know I figured it was written by a journalist and was pleasantly surprised when I found out it wasn't. Why did it bother you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I agree with everything except (4). The debate on global warming is over. It is the debate on viable responses and their implications that is being circumvented. With respect, that is the tired refrain of the global warming crowd who do not want to have a debate about either global warming or, more importantly, what causes fluctuations in temperature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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